  {"id":200946,"date":"2015-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=200946"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:04:56","slug":"auto-insert-200946","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-200946\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary-General appoints Robert Piper of Australia as Deputy Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process &#8211; SG press release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27767%27%20height%3D%27109%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20767%20109%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27767%27%20height%3D%27109%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/0ee662114c38595a85257e3b0066583c_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"109px\" width=\"767px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#0071bc;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>4 MAY 2015<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>SG\/A\/1566-BIO\/4720<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>&nbsp;ROBERT PIPER OF AUSTRALIA<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><u>DEPUTY SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:5px;text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Robert Piper of Australia as Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Piper will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. Piper will succeed James Rawley of the United States to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his distinguished service and in particular for his dedicated contribution to Gaza&#8217;s reconstruction efforts.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. Piper brings over 25 years of humanitarian and development experience with the United Nations, leading efforts in peacebuilding, conflict prevention and disaster risk reduction in a number of complex situations.&nbsp;&nbsp;He has been serving as the United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel region since 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">From 2008 to 2013, he was United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative for Nepal.&nbsp;&nbsp;He played a similar role leading the United Nations system in Kosovo from 2002 to 2004.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Piper has held a number of other key posts with UNDP at Headquarters and in the field, including as inaugural Director for the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund and as Deputy Director for Emergency Response.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. Piper has a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honours in political science, from the Australian National University.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was a Yale University World Fellow in 2004.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Born in 1966, he is married and has four children.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:6px;text-align:left;padding-bottom:3px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2015\/sga1566.doc.htm\" style=\"padding-top:6px;text-align:left;padding-bottom:3px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">http:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2015\/sga1566.doc.htm<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 MAY 2015 SG\/A\/1566-BIO\/4720 SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS&nbsp;ROBERT PIPER OF AUSTRALIA &nbsp;DEPUTY SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Robert Piper of Australia as Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Piper will also serve as United Nations Resident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-200946\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,3205],"document-source":[5352,1877],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1881,1797,1905,1638],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-200946","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-special-coordinator-for-the-middle-east-peace-process-unsco","document-subject-envoy","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","document-subject-quartet","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/200946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/200946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=200946"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=200946"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=200946"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=200946"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=200946"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=200946"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=200946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}